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There's Google store in Mountain View, at the 'plex. They sell the same products as their online store.

And don't forget your Google Gear, too.

Google Mini? It looks like they're local search-only indexing boxes right now, but I bet Google Apps will come on those eventually.

I'd be very surprised if the next Google Minis don't come with their e-office suite (if a full one is developed, of course) preinstalled as standard. You can bet that it'd integrate very well with your office (or home) fileserver. While the starting $2000 is a bit much for home users, the 50,000 docs it offers is as well - a couple hundred bucks for maybe 5,000 docs would be great for home users (though chances are someone would end up hacking the firmware so it would index more stuff, as I doubt the limits in place on the Minis are technical). I'd buy one, office suite or not.

It is almost as if you didn't hear about the Google Store, You can buy google lava lamps, google gum, google shirts, yep http://www.googlestore.com/

oh yeah?

Google used to sell boxers with the text "I'm Feeling Lucky" tiled on the bias. This was before the IPO I think.

They used to be sold through the Google Store, but they've toned down the apparel a little.

It would be interesting to make a list of what basic (computer related) services Google DOESNT provide yet.

1: Not yet an ISP! - Give me WiFi, damnit!
    *Reads This * "Good boy Google, now fetch"

2: Webpages - With the amount of storage they have for gmail, they could certainly fork up 50mb free webpage accounts by now, right? Just like with the mail, the average person probably wont use 50 megs, I'm sure that's what they'd count on. But it would be really interesting to see something like this happen with google. Oooh, what's this, searching appears to imply it exists, dispite the fact that it links nowhere...

3: Coffee and TV - It's true you can search froogle for just about anything, and it's true google has a small merchandising department (appairently), but they don't have anything like...amazon.com as an example (all be it a rather poor one). I think you get the point...if your company makes something, they cant add it to a google store, and if you want something, you cant buy it through google. (again, froogle, I know, but it's just not the same).

4: A Better Blogger - What the hell is up with blogging everything these days? I mean...it's like a diary, except anyone has access to read it. Now, this was fine until one day you turn on the news and they're reading some random John Doe's opinion on the economy, and acting like it's important. *ahem* but anyways, Blogger. If they slapped the google name on blogger, and wrote just a tad bit of support into the client their Google Talk client right here (something really simple, like, link your gmail account to your blogger account, and then just a little link in the drop down menu) and I'd bet my Bawls they'd see a sudden spike in blogger's popularity and it crushes other services as quickly as blogging crushed my hope in humanity.

5: Google Browser - a Gowser? I don't know what to call it, but it's an idea that I've seen google talk about as early as September 2001. Fork mozilla already! Just think about it though, how many of you have google as your start page? (or something that links to google in bright bold letters at the top of the page, such as this lovely one you're reading right now). If they've already made a messenger client and service, then they've clearly invested at least a reasonable amount of effort into software. It's not hard to imagine a massively google-customized fork of firefox, or mozilla, finding it's way onto my desktop, laptop, and PSP (once I get a good linux port running, emulating an x86 is too much of a round-about way of doing things for me). Of course, then someone would suggest they make a google media player, and they'd jump on the idea. And people would keep naming off apps they want google to make until one day they make a google kernel (goognel? or something...) and we have a complete google operating system running. I wish.

More importanlty, why did I stay up till 5 AM reading/posting on here? And when exactly in the night did I misplace my pants?

The company they really need to buy is google gear because their current Google Store is hidious.

I mean a google site using ASP? bleh

You mean GPL. The other "rules" are pretty subjective. I for one, would like to see Google act in favor of the community assuming the kernel patches are not the core of their technology.

The question is: Do they use these patches on the search appliances they sell, and does that count as "distribution"? I honestly don't know the answer to that question, and I'd like to think Google has sharp legal advisors to go with their sharp technical people.

Probably they do. But I am still curious about some of the hardware they sell.

Seems like they already caught the opportunity...

I really want these

http://www.googlestore.com/product.asp?catid=5&cod e=GO0033

http://www.google.com/enterprise/

They deliver entire enterprise-level searching solutions. The Google Mini (I smell an Apple-Google court battle here) sells for US$4995.

A Google logo LAVA(R) lamp of course. You can pay for it with the money you made on the IPO!

Sounds like it uses the same LED and chip setup that Google has in their light up pen.

I suppose if you really want to help "support" google, you can go to the google store.
Yay. I'm gonna buy a pen. And a hat.

However, I don't think they are hurting right now. Take a look at all the business deals they have made in their timeline.

If you want to be particularly geekish, you could buy one of these balls from Google, complete with Google decal. It's only $28.50 -- you could outfit an entire office for the cost of a single Aeron!

While they may not have a heck of a lot of merchandise, the Google Store has some wearables that I'm sure a few geeks like myself would wear.

I noticed that at google has free gourmet lunches for all its employees couresy of Chef Charlie. My question is how good is the food and has Charlie told you any interesting stories from his days with the Grateful Dead?

Prove your love -- buy a T-shirt!

(They also sell other spiffy stuff.)

Yet they are in the black. Meanwhile, ambitious efforts like Infoseek, Lycos, Yahoo, and NBCi are floundering or defunct. Perhaps there is a lesson in that. I certainly hope so.

Necessary no, available yes. See the Google Store at googlestore.com

(But it seems they can't cope with selling to non-USA anyway).

Regards, Ralph.